"Daphne Phung taught us all a life lesson last night. She once saw an MSNBC special about human trafficking and was so moved that she sought a way to bring down the beast. She created a ballot measure called Prop. 35 which if passed would heighten penalties against pimps and johns. She.and a small team of highly committed people collected thousands of signatures to get the measure on the ballot. As I prepare to close my eyes, Prop. 35 has garnered 84 percent of the vote in the state of California. Thank you Daphney Phung, Vanessa Marie Johnson Scott, Genice Jacobs Simenauer, Rosario Cas and the other freedom fighters. You are national heroes!" Wrote long time supporter Harry Louise Williams on the California Against Slavery of the Rosario CAS facebook supporter page.
"WE did it!" Echoed supporters from every corner of California!
"I am proud of all the hard work you are doing for this! Thank you for trying to make a difference. I love you!!!" Says another supporter of the cause to protect young girls against traffickers and their customers, the term used is a John.
Most people abhore crimes against humanity but most people have no idea that when procuring services from most prostitutes, they are participating in human trafficking. For those that know what they are doing and don't care, well now the new law will reflect a punishment to punish the offender but that isn't enough. We must be diligent as a community to extend ourselves to practice searching for victims on sites like Backpage, on street corners, and keeping our eyes open to children who may be in the care of a pimp.
Pimps sell their girls via Backpage or other elicit means by having their merchandise walk the track, a term used for a place or street outside where prostitutes sell their wares.
It IS everybody's business. John's need to stop buying girls who are trafficked, period. Pimps and traffickers need to be put out of commision and jailed while the community reaches out to help rehabilitate the victimes and their families. IT IS EVERYBODY's BUSINESS!
"The porn business is nothing more than a glamorous looking side to human trafficking." Says ex porn star Shelly Lubben who started The Pink Cross Foundation . She has faught endlessly to bring the ugly truth to the public. Porn often leads to porn addiction which leads to other nefarious addictions such as child porn which is child sex trafficking. Child pornography is one of the fastest growing businesses online, and the content is becoming much worse. In 2008, Internet Watch Foundation found 1,536 individual child abuse domains. It is now 2012 and there are thousands more.
Prop 35 closes the gap which the law labels sex trafficking as labor when it is clearly rape, kidnapping, and cohersion. There is a clear defination as to what rape is and a clear defination as to what labor is and the current human trafficking law doesn not address this difference. Prop 35 does.
Prop 35 supporters are exhilerated and celebrated the prop 35 win in style at the Oakland Asian Culteral Center where scores of human trafficking victims walk the streets day and night on International Blvd. Efforts to bring community awareness is at an all time high and prop 35 has given hope to victims who had no hope left.
